Encyclopedia of private international law. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jürgen Basedow, Giesela Rühl, Franco Ferrari and Pedro de Miguel Asensio.
• Editors: Basedow, Jürgen, 1949-; Rühl, Giesela, 1974-; Ferrari, Franco, 1951-; Miguel Asensio, Pedro A. de
• Contents: List of entries, A-D: Absence (disappearance, presumed death) / Pedro de Miguel Asensio -- Account Preservation Order Regulation / Jan von Hein -- Adjustment/Adaptation (Anpassung) / Gerhard Dannemann -- Adoption / Patricia Orejudo Prieto de los Mozos -- Adults, protection of / Jan von Hein -- Agency and authority of agents / Jens Kleinschmidt -- Air law (uniform law) / Alexander von Ziegler and Giovanna Montanaro -- Aldricus / Pietro Franzina -- Aliens law (Condition des étrangers, Fremdenrecht) / Jürgen Basedow -- Alternative dispute resolution / Horst Eidenmüller and Helge Großerichter -- (American) Conflict of Laws Revolution / Linda Silberman -- Anti-discrimination / Jan D Lüttringhaus -- Antisuit injunctions / Richard Fentiman -- Arbitration, international commercial / Luca G Radicati di Brozolo -- Arbitration, investment / Jan Asmus Bischoff -- Arbitration, maritime / Andrea La Mattina -- Arbitration, recognition of awards / Richard Kreindler and Kristina von der Linden -- Arbitration, (UNCITRAL) Model Law / Gilles Cuniberti -- Arrest of vessels / Chiara E Tuo -- Assignability/Assignment of claims / Marta Requejo Isidro -- Bartin, Étienne / Samuel Fulli-Lemaire -- Bartolus / Pietro Franzina -- Batiffol, Henri / Horatia Muir Watt -- Behavioural economics and Private International Law / Horst Eidenmüller and Johanna Stark -- Better law approach / Mathias W. Reimann -- Bill of exchange / Matthias Lehmann -- Bill of lading / Francesco Munari -- Bioethics and Private International Law / Mathias Audit -- Blocking statutes / Jürgen Basedow -- Bonds and loans / Matthias Lehmann -- Brussels I (Convention and Regulation) / Burkhard Hess and Vincent Richard -- Brussels IIa Regulation / Cristina González Beilfuss -- Burden of proof / Maximilian Seibl -- Bustamante, Antonio Sánchez de / Jürgen Samtleben -- Capacity and emancipation / Benedetta Ubertazzi -- Carriage of goods by road, rail and inland waterways / Monica Brignardello -- Carriage of goods by sea / Paola Ivaldi -- Carriage of passengers / Marco Lopez de Gonzalo -- CESL / Matteo Fornasier -- Cessio legis / Marta Requejo Isidro -- Cheques / Matthias Lehmann -- Child abduction / Cristina González Beilfuss -- Choice of forum and submission to jurisdiction / Adrian Briggs -- Choice of law / Jürgen Basedow -- CIDIP / Cecilia Fresnedo de Aguirre -- CIEC/ICCS (International Commission on Civil Status) / Walter Pintens -- CISG / Franco Ferrari -- Civil and commercial matters / Burkhard Hess and Cristian Oro Martinez -- Classification (characterization) / Stefania Bariatti -- CLIP / Pedro de Miguel Asensio -- Collective redress / Horatia Muir Watt -- Comity / Tim W Dornis -- Commercial agency, franchise and distribution contracts / Jürgen Basedow -- Commonwealth of Independent States and Private International Law / Eugenia Kurzynsky-Singer -- Companies / Marc-Philippe Weller and Chris Thomale -- Companies, transnational groups of / Moritz Renner -- Comparative Law and Private International Law / Ralf Michaels -- Competition law (antitrust) / Jürgen Basedow -- Competition, unfair / Tim W Dornis -- Connecting factor / Heinz-Peter Mansel -- Constitutional law and Private International Law / Alex Mills -- Construction contracts / Wolfgang Wurmnest -- Consumer contracts / Michael Wilderspin -- Contractual obligations / Michael Wilderspin -- Country of origin rule / Chris Thomale and Marc-Philippe Weller -- Court of Justice of the European Union / Hannes Rösler -- Culpa in contrahendo / Dário Moura Vicente -- Cultural objects, protection of / Matthias Weller -- Currie, Brainerd / Linda Silberman -- Damages / Jan von Hein -- Debt recovery, cross-border / Tanja Domej -- Dépeçage / Peter Mankowski -- Dicey, Albert Venn / Lawrence Collins (Lord Collins of Mapesbury) -- Direct action / Louise Merrett -- Director's Liability / Chris Thomale and Marc-Philippe Weller -- Divorce and personal separation / Dagmar Coester-Waltjen -- Domicile, habitual residence and establishment / Anatol Dutta -- Donation / Anatol Dutta -- Double taxation treaties / Markus Heintzen -- Economic analysis and Private International Law / Giesela Rühl. List of entries, E-M: Ehrenzweig, Albert A / Kurt Siehr -- Electronic commerce / Dan Jerker B Svantesson -- Embargo / Francisco Garcimartín Alférez -- Employment, collective bargaining / Liukkunen Ulla -- Employment contracts, applicable law / Matteo Fornasier -- Employment contracts, jurisdiction / Matteo Fornasier -- Employment, industrial disputes / Ulla Liukkunen -- Employment, maritime / Laura Carballo Piñeiro -- Employment, posting of workers / Matteo Fornasier -- Environmental liability / Katia Fach Gómez -- Escape clauses / Jürgen Basedow -- Estoppel / Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson -- European account preservation order regulation / Jan von Hein -- European Union and Private International Law / Jan-Jaap Kuipers -- Evasion of laws (fraus legis) / Kurt Siehr -- Evidence, procurement of / Maximilian Seibl -- Expert liability / Wolfgang Wurmnest -- Expropriation / Eva-Maria Kieninger -- Factoring (uniform law) / Franco Ferrari -- Financial instruments / Matthias Lehmann -- Financial leasing (uniform law) / Franco Ferrari -- Flag / Duygu Damar -- Floating choice of law / Adrian Briggs -- Foreign law, application and ascertainment / Carlos Esplugues and Guillermo Palao -- Foreign law, judicial review / Carlos Esplugues and Guillermo Palao -- Formal requirements and validity / Helmut Heiss and Sascha Drobnjak -- Forum (and law) shopping / Franco Ferrari -- Forum non conveniens / Richard Fentiman -- Freedom of establishment/persons (European Union) and Private International Law / Chris Thomale and Marc-Philippe Weller -- Freezing injunctions and search orders / Alexander Layton and Albert Dinelli -- Freight forwarding contracts / Johannes Schilling -- Full faith and credit clause / Symeon C Symeonides -- Game theory and Private International Law / Michael E Solimine -- GEDIP / Kurt Siehr -- Globalization and Private International Law / Horatia Muir Watt -- Goldschmidt, Werner / Mario JA Oyarzábal -- Guarantees / Matthias Lehmann -- Guardianship, custody and parental responsibility / Cristina Gonzáles Beilfuss -- Hague Conference on Private International Law / Marta Pertegás -- Huber, Ulrik / Mathijs ten Wolde -- Human rights and Private International Law / Patrick Kinsch -- ICAO / Alexander von Ziegler and Judith Baumann -- Immovable property / Eva-Maria Kieninger -- Immunity / Ilaria Queirolo -- IMO / Laura Carballo Piñeiro -- Incidental (preliminary) question / Andrea Bonomi -- Injunction / Richard Fentiman -- Insolvency, applicable law / Antonio Leandro -- Insolvency, cooperation and recognition / Antonio Leandro -- Insolvency, jurisdiction and vis attractiva / Antonio Leandro -- Insurance contracts / Helmut Heiss -- Intellectual property, applicable law / Dário Moura Vicente -- Intellectual property, jurisdiction / Benedetta Ubertazzi -- Interest and policy analysis in Private International Law / Mathias W Reimann -- Internet, jurisdiction / Pedro de Miguel Asensio -- Internet, liability / Pedro de Miguel Asensio -- Interpretation, autonomous / Hannes Rösler -- Interregional/Interstate law / Cristina Gonzáles Beilfuss -- Interreligious law / Imen Gallala-Arndt -- Ius gentium / Laurens Winkel -- Jurisdiction, contracts and torts / Pietro Franzina -- Jurisdiction, foundations / Ralf Michaels -- Jurisdiction, limits under international law / Donald Earl Childress III -- Kahn, Franz / Kurt Siehr -- Kegel, Gerhard / Heinz-Peter Mansel -- Kinship and Legitimation / Yuko Nishitani -- Lease contracts and tenancies / Christoph U Schmid, Jason R Dinse and Tsubasa Wakabayashi -- Legal aid / Xandra Kramer -- Legalisation of public documents / Christian Hertel -- Lex fori / Marta Requejo Isidro -- Lex maritima / Andreas Maurer -- Lex mercatoria / Gralf-Peter Calliess -- Liability, capital market / Herbert Kronke -- Liability, limitation of maritime / Bevan Marten -- Licence contracts / Axel Metzger -- Life insurance contracts / Jan D. Lüttringhaus -- Lis alibi pendens / Linda Silberman -- Local data / Tim W. Dornis -- Lugano Convention / Sandrine Giroud -- Maintenance obligations / Michael Hellner -- Mancini, Pasquale Stanislao / Yuko Nishitani -- Marine insurance / Pierangelo Celle -- Maritime law (uniform law) / Bevan Marten -- Maritime torts / Lorenzo Schiano di Pepe -- Marriage / Dagmar Coester-Waltjen -- Matrimonial property / Walter Pintens and Jens M Scherpe -- Mediation / Carlos Esplugues -- Money and currency / Caroline Kleiner -- Multimodal carriage contracts / Sergio M Carbone -- Multiple defendants and joint liability / Christian Heinze. List of entries, N-W: Names of individuals / Kathrin Kroll-Ludwigs -- Nationality / Heinz-Peter Mansel -- Negotiorum gestio / Peter Mankowski -- Nuclear liability / Wolfgang Wurmnest -- Online dispute resolution / Gralf-Peter Calliess and Simon Johannes Heetkamp -- Optional (facultative) choice of law / Axel Flessner -- Overriding mandatory provisions / Michael Wilderspin -- Party autonomy / Horatia Muir Watt -- Payment Order Regulation / Wolfgang Hau -- Personal status / Anatol Dutta -- Personality rights / Jan-Jaap Kuipers -- Place of performance / Pietro Franzina -- Prescription / Heinz-Peter Mansel -- Private International Law, foundations / Giesela Rühl -- Private International Law, history of / Kurt Siehr -- Private International Law, methods of / Jürgen Basedow -- Proceedings, law governing / Wolfgang Hau -- Products liability / Thomas Kadner Graziano -- Proper law (doctrine) / Alexander Layton and Albert Dinelli -- Property and proprietary rights / Louis d'Avout -- Property and proprietary rights in vessels / Maria Elena De Maestri -- Provisional measures / Wolfgang Hau -- Public International Law and Private International Law / Alex Mills -- Public policy (ordre public) / Ionna Thoma -- Rabel, Ernst / Jürgen Basedow -- Reciprocity / Anatol Dutta -- Recognition and enforcement of judgments (civil law) / Tanja Domej -- Recognition and enforcement of judgments (common law) / Adrian Briggs -- Recognition of administrative acts / Dirk Wiegandt -- Recognition of legal situations evidenced by documents / Dagmar Coester-Waltjen -- Registered partnerships / Patrick Wautelet -- Regulatory competition / Giesela Rühl -- Reinsurance contracts / Jan D Lüttringhaus -- Remedies / Richard Garnett -- Renvoi / Michael Sonnentag -- Restatement (First and Second) of Conflict of Laws / Symeon C Symeonides -- Rome Convention and Rome I Regulation (contractual obligations) / Francisco Garcimartín Alférez -- Rome II Regulation (non-contractual obligations) / Andrew Dickinson -- Rome III Regulation (divorce) / Patricia Orejudo Prieto de los Mozos -- Rome IV Regulation (succession) / Mathijs ten Wolde -- Sale contracts and sale of goods / Franco Ferrari -- Salvage / Laura Carpaneto -- Same-sex marriages / Walter Pintens and Jens M Scherpe -- Savigny, Friedrich Carl von / Michael Sonnentag -- Seawaybills and other transport documents / Giorgia M Boi -- Security interests in mobile equipment (uniform law) / Eva-Maria Kieninger -- Service of documents / Wolfgang Hau -- Set-off / Michael Hellner -- Small Claims Regulation / Kathrin Kroll-Ludwigs -- Social protection and Private International Law / Eberhard Eichenhofer -- States, failed and non-recognized / Alex Mills -- Story, Joseph / Ralf Michaels -- Substance and Procedure / Richard Garnett -- Substitution / Jan D Lüttringhaus -- Succession / Andrea Bonomi -- Surrogacy / Patricia Orejudo Prieto de los Mozos -- Taxation, international / Markus Heintzen -- Territoriality / Toshiyuki Kono -- Torts / Thomas Kadner Graziano -- Traffic accidents / Thomas Kadner Graziano -- Transport law (uniform law) / Duygu Damar -- Transsexual and transgender persons / Jens M Scherpe -- Treaties in Private International Law / Marta Pertegás -- TRIPS / Axel Metzger -- Trust / Anatol Dutta -- UNCITRAL / Franco Ferrari -- UNIDROIT / Herbert Kronke -- Uniform substantive law and Private International Law / Franco Ferrari -- Unilateralism / Stéphanie Francq -- Unitary intellectual property rights and jurisdiction / Christian Heinze -- Unitary intellectual property rights and Private International Law / Christian Heinze -- Unjust enrichment (restitution) / Peter Mankowski -- Vested rights theory / Jürgen Basedow -- Voet, Paulus und Johannes / Mathijs ten Wolde -- Wächter, Carl Georg von / Ralf Michaels -- West Balkan Convention / Christa Jessel-Holst -- WIPO and Private International Law / Johannes Christian Wichard -- WTO and Private International Law / Tim W Dornis. List of National Reports: Albania / Aida Gugu Bushati and Christa Jessel-Holst -- Angola / Dário Moura Vicente -- Argentina / Adriana Silvia Dreyzin de Klor -- Australia / Alex Mills -- Austria / Helmut Heiss -- Belarus / Aliaksandr Danilevich -- Belgium -- Stéphanie Francq -- Bosnia and Herzegovina / Zlatan Meškić -- Brazil / Claudia Lima Marques, Lucas Lixinski and Pablo Marcello Baquero -- Bulgaria / Vessela Stancheva-Mincheva and Yordanka Zidarova -- Canada / Joost Blom -- Chile / Eduardo Picand Albónico -- China / Weizuo Chen -- Colombia / Adriana Zapata Giraldo -- Croatia / Vilim Bouček -- Cuba / José Carlos Fernández Rozas -- Czech Republic / Monika Pauknerová -- Denmark / Morten M Fogt -- Dominican Republic / José Carlos Fernández Rozas -- Ecuador / Hernán Pérez Loose -- Egypt / Nadjma Yassari -- Estonia / Liis Halling -- Finland / Ulla Liukkunen -- France / Gilles Cuniberti -- Georgia / George Vashakidze -- Germany / Jan von Hein -- Ghana / Richard Frimpong Oppong -- Greece / Ioanna Thoma -- Hong Kong, S.A.R. of China / Lutz-Christian Wolff -- Hungary / Lajos Vékás -- Iceland / Eiríkur Elís Thorláksson -- India / Tushar Kumar Biswas -- Indonesia / Gary F Bell and Yu Un Oppusunggu -- Iran / Nadjma Yassari -- Ireland / William Binchy -- Israel / Talia Einhorn -- Italy / Andrea Bonomi and Tito Ballarino † -- Japan / Toshiyuki Kono -- Kazakhstan / Farkhad Karagussov -- Korea / Kwang Hyun Suk -- Latvia / Baiba Rudevska -- Lebanon / Marie-Claude Najm Kobeh -- Liechtenstein / Helmut Heiss -- Lithuania / Pavelas Ravluševičius -- Luxembourg / Patrick Kinsch -- Macau, S.A.R. of China / Guangjian Tu -- Macedonia, FYR / Toni Deskoski -- Malta / Paul Cachia -- Mexico / María Mercedes Albornoz -- Montenegro / Maja Kostić-Mandić -- Mozambique / Dário Moura Vicente -- Netherlands / Mathijs ten Wolde -- New Zealand / Elsabe Schoeman -- Nigeria / Richard Frimpong Oppong -- Norway / Giuditta Cordero-Moss -- Paraguay / José A Moreno Rodríguez -- Peru / Aurelio Lopez-Tarruella Martínez -- Poland / Andrzej Mączyński -- Portugal / Dário Moura Vicente -- Romania / Andra Cotiga -- Russian Federation / Anton Asoskov -- Saudi Arabia / Hilmar Krüger -- Serbia / Slavko Djordjevic -- Singapore / Tiong Min Yeo -- Slovakia / Natalia Stefankova -- Slovenia / Jerca Kramberger Škerl -- South Africa / Elsabe Schoeman -- Spain / Pedro de Miguel Asensio -- Sweden / Michael Hellner -- Switzerland / Caroline Kleiner -- Taiwan / Rong-Chwan Chen -- Thailand / Kittisak Prokati and Akawat Laowonsiri -- Tunisia / Imen Gallala-Arndt -- Turkey / Duygu Damar -- Ukraine / Anatoliy Dovgert -- United Kingdom / Andrew Dickinson -- Uruguay / Gonzalo Lorenzo Idiarte -- USA / Linda Silberman -- Venezuela / Claudia Madrid Martínez -- Vietnam / Trinh Thi Hong Nguyen List of Codifications: Part I: National Statutes and Provisions -- Law No. 10 428 of 2 June 2011 on Private International Law (Albania) -- Civil Code (Angola) -- Code of Civil Procedure (Angola) -- Commercial and Civil Code of 7 October 2014 (Argentina) -- Foreign Judgments Act 1991 (Australia) -- Federal Statute of 15 June 1978 on Private International Law (Austria) -- Civil Code of the Republic of Belarus (Belarus) -- Law of 16 July 2004 Holding the Code of Private International Law (Belgium) -- Act Concerning the Resolution of Conflicts of Laws with the Provisions of Other Countries in Certain Matters (Bosnia and Herzegovina) -- Law of Introduction to the Norms of Brazilian Law (Brazil) -- Code of Civil Procedure (Brazil) -- Private International Law Code (Bulgaria) -- Civil Code of Qub̌ec (Canada) -- Uniform Court Jurisdiction and Proceedings Transfer Act (Canada) -- Civil Code of 14 December 1855 (Chile) -- Code of Civil Procedure of 28 August 1902 (Chile) -- Law on Civil Matrimony of 7 May 2004 (Chile) -- Organic Court Code of 15 June 1943 (Chile) -- Law on the Application of Laws to Civil Relationships Involving a Foreign Element of the People's Republic of China (China) -- Civil Code (Colombia) -- Code of General Procedure (Colombia) -- Code of Civil Procedure (Colombia) -- Commercial Code (Colombia) -- Act concerning the Resolution of Conflicts of Laws with Provisions of other States in certain Matters of 1991 (Croatia) -- Civil Code of the Republic of Cuba (Cuba) -- Civil, Administrative Labour and Economic Procedure Act (Cuba) -- Act of 25 January 2012 on Private International Law (Czech Republic) -- The Administration of Justice Act (Denmark) -- Private International Law Act of the Dominican Republic of 5 December 2014 (Dominican Republic) -- Civil Code of 21 November 1857 (Ecuador) -- Code of Civil Procedure of 18 May 1987 (Ecuador) -- Organic Code of the Judicial Function of 3 March 2009 (Ecuador) -- Civil Code of the Arab Republic of Egypt (Egypt) -- The Egyptian Code of Civil and Commercial Procedures (Egypt) -- Private International Law (Estonia) -- Code of Civil Procedure (Estonia) -- Marriage Act (Finland) -- Code of Inheritance (Finland) -- Act on Registered Partnerships (Finland) -- Act on Child Custody and Right of Access (Finland) -- Civil Code (France) -- Code of Civil Procedure (France) -- Commercial Code (France) -- Georgian Law on Private International Law (Georgia) -- Introductory Act to the Civil Code of 18 August 1896 (Germany) -- Code of Civil Procedure of 1 October 1879 (Germany) -- Act on Proceedings in Family Matters and in Matters of Non-contentious Jurisdiction of 17 December 2008 (Germany) -- Courts Act 1999 (Ghana) -- Intestate Succession Law 1981 (Ghana) -- Matrimonial Causes Act 1971 (Ghana) -- Wills Act 1971 (Ghana) -- Greek Civil Code (Greece) -- Code of Civil Procedure (Greece) -- Mainland Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Ordinance of 1 August 2008 (Hong Kong) -- Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Ordinance of 6 May 1960 (Hong Kong) -- Matrimonial Causes Ordinance of 20 January 1967 (Hong Kong) -- Parent and Child Ordinance of 19 March and 19 June 1993 (Hong Kong) -- Wills Ordinance of 13 March 1970 (Hong Kong) -- Law-Decree No. 13 of 1979 on Private International Law -- Act no. 91/1991 on Civil Procedure -- Act no. 90/1989 on Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Hungary) -- Code of Civil Procedure (India) -- Succession Act 1925 (India) -- General Provisions of Legislation for Indonesia (Indonesia) -- Civil Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran 1928 (Iran) -- Code of Civil Procedure 2000 (Iran) -- Enforcement of Civil Judgments 1977 (Iran) -- Family Protection Act 2013 (Iran) -- Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996 (Ireland) -- Domicile and Recognition of Foreign Divorces Act 1986 (Ireland) -- Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (Ireland) -- Adoption Act 2010 (Ireland). Capacity and Guardianship Law, 5722-1962 (Israel) -- Nationality Law, 5712-1952 (Israel) -- Family Amendment (Maintenance) Law, 5719-1959 (Israel) -- Jurisdiction in Matters of Dissolution of Marriage (Special Cases and International Jurisdiction) Law, 5729-1969 (Israel) -- Spouses (Property Relations) Law, 5733-1973 (Israel) -- Succession Law, 5765-1965 (Israel) -- Foreign Judgments Enforcement Law, 5718-1958 (Israel) -- Civil Procedure Rules (Israel) -- Reform of the Italian System of Private International Law (Italy) -- Act on the General Rules of Application of Laws (Japan) -- Code of Civil Procedure (Japan) -- Civil Execution Act (Japan) -- Civil Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan) -- Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan) -- Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Marriage (Matrimony) and Family (Kazakhstan) -- The Civil Law (Latvia) -- Civil Procedure Law (Latvia) -- Code of Civil Procedure (Lebanon) -- Code of Real Property (Lebanon) -- Decree no. 141, 3 October 1933 (Lebanon) -- Decree no. 109, 14 May 1935 (Lebanon) -- Decree no. 53, 30 March 1939 (Lebanon) -- Law of 23 June 1959 (Lebanon) -- Law of 2 April 1951 (Lebanon) -- Statute of 19 September 1996 on Private International Law (Liechtenstein) -- Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuania) -- Code of Civil Procedure of the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuania) -- Civil Code (Luxembourg) -- Civil Code of 3 August 1999 (Macau) -- Private International Law Act (Macedonia) -- Act for Amending and Supplementing the Private International Law Act (Macedonia) -- Code of Organisation and Civil Procedure of 1 May 1855 (Malta) -- Marriage Act of 1 October 1975 (Malta) -- Federal Civil Code (Mexico) -- Federal Code of Civil Procedure (Mexico) -- Code of Civil Procedure for the Federal District (Mexico) -- International Private Law Act (Montenegro) -- Civil Code (Mozambique) -- Code of Civil Procedure (Mozambique) -- Dutch Civil Code (Netherlands) -- Judicature Act 1908 (New Zealand) -- Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act 1934 (New Zealand) -- Trans-Tasman Proceedings Act 2010 (New Zealand) -- Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Ordinance 1922 (Nigeria) -- Foreign Judgment (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1960 (Nigeria) -- Marriage Act 1914 (Nigeria) -- Matrimonial Causes Act 1970 (Nigeria) -- Civil Code (Paraguay) -- Code of Organization of the Judiciary (Paraguay) -- Law Regarding the Applicable Law to International Contracts (Paraguay) -- Civil Code of the Republic of Peru (Peru) -- Act on Private International Law dated 4 February 2011 (Poland) -- Civil Code (Portugal) -- Code of Civil Procedure (Portugal) -- New Civil Code (Romania) -- New Civil Procedure Code (Romania) -- The Civil Code of the Russian Federation (Russian Federation) -- Civil Procedural Code of the Russian Federation (Russian Federation) -- Family Code of the Russian Federation (Russian Federation) -- Procedure Code of the Shar'̋a Courts (Saudi Arabia) -- Execution Law (Saudi Arabia) -- The Law on Resolution of Conflict of Laws with Regulations of Other Countries (Serbia) -- New Private International Law Act of the Republic of Serbia (Draft) (Serbia) -- Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Singapore) -- Act on Private International Law and Procedural Law (Slovakia) -- Private International Law and Procedure Act of 1999 (Slovenia) -- Domicile Act (South Africa) -- Divorce Act (South Africa) -- Enforcement of Foreign Civil Judgments (South Africa) -- Law Amending the Conflict of Laws Act of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) -- Civil Code of 24 July 1889 (Spain) -- Organic Law 6/1985 of 1 July on the Judiciary (Spain) -- Law 29/2015 of 30 July on International Legal Cooperation in Civil Matters (Spain) -- Code of Judicial Procedure (Sweden) -- Act Concerning Conflict of Laws in Regard to Succession (Sweden) -- Act on International Legal Relations Concerning Adoption (Sweden) -- Ordinance on Examination of Foreign Decisions on Adoption (Sweden) -- Intercountry Adoption Intermediation Act (Sweden) -- Federal Act of Private International Law (Switzerland) -- Act Governing the Choice of Law in Civil Matters Involving Foreign Elements (Taiwan) -- Act on Conflict of Laws (Thailand) -- Code of Private International Law (Tunisia) -- Code of Private International Law and International Civil Procedure (Turkey) -- Law of Ukraine on Private International Law (Ukraine) -- Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995 (United Kingdom) -- Appendix to the Civil Code (Uruguay) -- Code of Civil Procedure (Uruguay) -- United States Code (USA) -- Louisiana Civil Code (USA) -- Oregon Revised Statutes (USA) -- Uniform Commercial Code (USA) -- Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act 2005 (USA) -- Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act 1997 (USA) -- Uniform Interstate Family Support Act 2008 (USA) -- Venezuelan Act on Private International Law (Venezuela) -- Civil Code (Vietnam) -- Civil Procedure Code (Vietnam) -- Marriage and Family Law (Vietnam) -- Part II: International Conventions -- Sánchez de Bustamante Code of Private International Law -- Kiev Treaty Concerning the Modalities of the Settlement of Disputes Related to the Exercise of Commercial Activity -- Minsk Convention on Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in Civil, Family, and Criminal Matters.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 340.903; Conflict of laws -- Jurisdiction -- Encyclopedias; Jurisdiction (International law) -- Encyclopedias; Comparative law -- Encyclopedias; Conflict of laws -- Arbitration and award -- Encyclopedias; Judgments, Foreign -- Encyclopedias; International law -- Encyclopedias; Comparative law; Conflict of laws -- Arbitration and award; Conflict of laws -- Jurisdiction; Judgments, Foreign; Jurisdiction (International law); International law; Encyclopedias; Encyclopedias; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782547235; 1782547231
• Related ISBNs: 9781782547228; 1782547223
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from title screen (Elgaronline, viewed on September 11, 2017).
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